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5:20 CAT | 29 Feb 2020
Umaro Sissoco Embalo is a former prime minister and army general. [Photo: Reuters]
Guinea-Bissau’s former governing party has appointed an interim president and sworn in a prime minister, despite losing last year’s presidential poll.
The PAIGC went to the Supreme Court to demand the result is overturned – it has not yet issued a ruling.
Guinea-Bissau now has two presidents and two prime ministers.
The opposition leader, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who won more than 50% of the vote, insists he is the rightful head of state.
On Thursday he swore himself in as president in a luxury hotel.
The PAIGC, which has dominated politics since independence from Portugal in 1974, is having none of it.
It has appointed its own man, parliamentary leader Cipriano Cassamá, as president. He was not the PAIGC’s candidate in December’s run-off poll.
Guinea-Bissau is highly unstable and has had nine coups or attempted coups since 1980.
It is also a key trafficking point for drugs from South America on their way to Europe.
Source: BBC
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